Plum Millie - a Good Mistake

I can't listen to music and sew at the same time, evidently.

I made this pattern before, and know perfectly well how it goes.  You cut your fabric, insert a strip, then sew everything back together.  Simple?  Yes.

This is how it's supposed to look, nicely intersecting lines.

But when you're listening to music, you can get distracted at the ironing board and mix up the order of the segments and not even realize it.  See, I was doing them in sets of three, to be efficient, and that made it easy to scramble them, like you see here.

Sewn together, they don't line up.  At this point, I noticed my mistake.  Of course my first reaction was "wrong".  But it was quickly followed by "so what?".  I kind of liked it.  It had a branched effect that went with the title of the quilt (Plum Millie).  If I lost you there, think plum tree.

I kept the three branched blocks, made some "right" blocks, then made two more branched ones.  Now I'm almost done with the twenty blocks, and I have eight branches.  They kind of grew on me.